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Gregg Bell joined The News Tribune in July 2014. Bell had been the director of writing for the University of Washington's athletic department for four years. He was the senior national sports writer in Seattle for The Associated Press from 2005-10, covering the Seahawks in their first Super Bowl season and beyond. He's also been The Sacramento Bee's beat writer on the Oakland Athletics and Raiders. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and a 2000 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

Now Whisenhunt is in the same predicament he was in in AZ. He has a decent core to build from, a couple young stars, an aging star not living up to his contract….and no real qb. Last time he rented Warner and did well, but when Warner retired he spent picks and millions of dollars fielding a parade of qb’s that rivaled only the Post Dave Kreig and Pre-Hasselbeck era Seahawks for sheer suckitude…and it got him fired.

Georgia–I hope so. Ive always liked Locker, though Im not really a Huskies fan. He’s everything Tebow was supposed to be, but isnt. He seems like a good kid, and Im rooting for him. But damn, he needs to improve his completion percentage!

The Titans were playing really well last season before Locker got hurt. Then their season went to heck.

I think Whiz is a good coach and I think Locker will be a decent QB. That WR they drafted in the 1st round last year looks like he’s going to be good and they have stabilized their OL a bit. They get to play the Jags and Texans four times next year, too.

I would love to keep Quinn around for awhile – but we won’t keep him around for long.

I think the NFL should just say no interviews or hires until the day after the super Bowl. In reality, I don’t understand why some teams are in such a huge hurry to hire people – they can’t sign any players so the rush

I’ve been saying Locker needs to improve his completion percentage since his Sophomore year at the UW. At this point I have to say that ugly is as ugly does. He’s a 55% passer at best. Silk purse/Sows ear, etc, etc, etc, blah, blah, blah…….

He should have left school after his Jr. year and cashed in. He didn’t. He’s stupid and totally deserves what little money he got. Tennessee is also stupid and deserves what they got, a second tier QB with no real future and no real chance of drafting anybody better.

The Titans get the #11 pick this year and won’t be able get an elite QB and are essentially stuck with (doomed to) Jake Locker. If you believe stupidity deserves punishment, then we agree that the Titans deserve their fate. At least 5 more years of 8-8.

PFF ranked TEN one spot higher than SEA in overall offense. They rank TENs offensive passing and rushing as way worse than SEA, but the TEN OL’s run-blkg as way better. Fitzpatrick played about the same as Locker, about middle of the pack. For the ’13 reg season, looking at people who played QB for at least 25% of their team’s offensive snaps, PFF ranked RW’s overall QB performance 4th (behind P.Manning, Brees and Rivers), SF’s CK 18th, AZ’s CP 19th, STL’s SB 20th. TEN’s R.Fitzpatrick ranked 21st and Jake Locker 22nd.

If you change the setting from 25% of the teams offensive snaps, to players who played any snaps at QB during the ’13 regular season, TJax gets inserted into the ranking just before Kaepernick, (and RW remains 4th).

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